Case Studies

HCI3 collaborated with CHC to design, implement, and measure a bundled payment program for maternity care, and the experience—both during the process of executing year one of the pilot, and upon review of the first year’s outcomes—yielded insights valuable to other health care leaders. The observations and recommendations detailed in this case study include:

Sixty-nine patients took part in PEBTF’s yearlong bundled payment pilot and the experience yielded meaningful lessons, described in detail throughout this case study. Under the bundled payment program for total hip and total knee replacements:

The hospital facility and orthopedic practice involved instituted a robust and highly collaborative program of care improvement

Even before the Affordable Care Act, Horizon Healthcare Services of New Jersey set out to change how healthcare is delivered. A few years into its initiative, the company runs the largest commercial Episodes of Care (specialty-value-based) program in the country, and is delivering impressive results in quality, patient experience and cost reduction.